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Friday, April 06, 2012

April LDL

Bring a friend

Jerry's email arrived today announcing this month's LDL meeting. His timely reminders have been especially helpful this year because the weather has been so unlike itself. We didn't have winter up here this year so I had to count on Jerry's LDL announcements to keep me from being calendrically challenged.

I'm sure Mary Sue will enhance the event with her creative theme and decorations. She's good at that stuff.

Flowers for Mom

Now, if it were up to me...and you're very fortunate that it's not...I would decorate Jimmies on Tuesday with my favorite flowers,

"Geronimo"

Dandelions.

Those are the real flowers of spring. At least in my yard. The name comes from the French word for describing the sharp, "lion's tooth" shape of their leaves, "Dent-de-Lion."

Dandelion Facts from the Internet:

"The dandelion flower opens to greet the morning and closes in the evening to go to sleep.

Up until the 1800s people would pull grass out of their lawns to make room for dandelions and other useful “weeds” like chickweed, and chamomile."

Every year Americans spend millions on lawn pesticides to have uniform lawns of non-native grasses, (no dandelions!) and we use 30% of the country’s water supply to keep them green."

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One other fact about dandelions, it's said that you can put them in salads and eat them.

However, I would strongly advise against it. I tried it once early in the Spring back in the '60's and finally discovered what T.S. Elliot meant in the first line of his otherwise undecipherable poem The Waste Land...about April being the cruelest month.

-Ed

"April is the cruelest month, breedingLilacs out of the dead land, mixingMemory and desire, stirringDull roots with spring rain."- T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922

Ozymandias

`My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

Keep on Tooting

WISDOM FROM STEVE JOBS

Your Time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

They somehow already know what you truly want to become.

Everything else is secondary.

-Steve Jobs

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